Europe
Holland Casino Rotterdam
xcnl > en xcnl > en So, the last time I went to a Holland Casino to play poker was months and months ago in Amsterdam and I lost my shirt, then committed the cardinal sin of hitting the ATM Read more
Ramblings
Wacky wacky world
I love it. Jessica Simpson declines to meet the President and attend the Republican fund raiser because she says she doesn’t want to politicize her favorite charity: Operation Smile. And what does Operation Smile do you might ask? They provide Read more
Ramblings
Sony Delays PlayStation3
I don’t know why this stuff interests me so much, but it does. Anyway, they are cracking open the champagne at Microsoft. Not only does Sony have to delay the revenues/profits it is going to get from PlayStation until pretty Read more
Europe
TOC at the Nationals
xcnl > en xcnl > en So the Table of Contents ()is among the top 17.5% of pub quiz teams in the Netherlands. We deduce this from the fact that today we finished 35th out of 199 total participating teams. Read more
Europe
Rome – The Forum and Palatine Hill
xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en A few months before I went to Rome I had just finished watching the HBO miniseries and finished reading a great book about the ancient Read more
General
Rome – St Peter’s Basilica
I think it’s the biggest church I’ve ever been in. It’s sheer grandeur dwarfs every cathedral I’ve seen in the rest of Europe. A huge covered space, with vaulted ceilings () so high they remain in constant semi-darkness. Already from Read more
General
Rome – Strangers in Line
We’re standing in line to get into St. Peter’s basilica. It’s our first day in Rome and it’s mid-afternoon. Sadly, the day is grey and overcast. I take the camera and snap a few shots of the square and the Read more
General
Rome – First Impressions
Ann keeps telling me that no one reads my posts because they are too long, so I am going to chop them up into little digests as an experiment, and I’m going to start with our arrival in Rome. Fiumicino Read more
General
Travel Blog
Hi everyone, As I have admin rights to this weblog, I am shamelessly going to use them to bring you the following newsflash: as an example of a modern independent woman I have created my own travel blog. So go check it Read more